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Designs for a. 
THREE TEACHER 

RURAL SCHOOL 

WUh Teachers' Cottage 

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Guy Lowell :Jlrthur I Meigs 
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Vol. Vll AUGUST. 1921 No. 4 

A THREE-TEACHER RURAL SCHOOL 

WITH TEACHERS' COTTAGE 

REPORT OF THE JURY OF AWARD OF THE SIXTH ANNUAL 
WHITE PINE ARCHITECTURAL COMPETITION 

Judged at Yama Farms, Napanoch, N. Y., May 6 and y, iq2i 

PROBLEM: A. The design of a three-teacher rural school building ti be built of wood — all outside finish to be of White Pine. The school 
property is level and contains about five acres. It is located on the east side of the main street of the village, which runs north and 
south and between two minor roads, making a frontage of the property of three hundred feet on the main street and a depth of seven 
hundred feet to a property line. The building is to be kept well back from the i. -in street and the front portion of the property devel- 
oped and used as a small Park or Village Green. The requirements are as follows. 

Building to be one story with or without a basement, or with basement partially excavated for boiler and fuel rooms. 

Three standard class rooms, each with an area of 720 square feet, and seating 40 pupils each. Two of these rooms separated by 
folding partitions. 

Ceiling heights not less than 12' 0" in clear. 

Class rooms lighted from left side only. Windows in one long bank. Heads of windows as close to ceiling as possible. Net glass area 
of windows to equal not less than 20% of the class room floor area. 

Adjoining each class room shall be provided a coat room for the pupils' clothing. 

An industrial art room shall be provided for boys, equal in area from J/^ to ^ of a class room. Net glass area to be same propor- 
tion as called for in class room, but windows may be on one or two sides of the room. 

A domestic science room for girls, equal in area from J4 to J4 of a class room. Net glass area to be same proportion as called for 
in class room, but windows may be on one or two sides of room. ( -^ 

A room for library, 150 to 200 square feet. 

A teachers' room with toilet accommodations and about the same size as library. 

Toilet room for boys, containing two W. C.'s and three urinals and two lavatories. 

Toilet rooms for girls, containing four W. C.'s and two lavatories. 

A play room for boys, equal to about a class room in area. 

A play room for girls, equal to about a class room in area. _ 

These play rooms may be either in the basement or on main floor. In any case, they must be adjacent to and the toilet rooms made 
available, as these play rooms are used before and after school and in summer time when the main portion of school is closed. Toilet 
rooms should also be easily accessible from the main part of school building. Play rooms must be directly accessible from outside of 
building and also accessible to main portions of building from the inside. 

"Two or more entrances must be provided. 

A flag-pole, higher than the school building, must be located on the property in a dignified position. 

The building will be heated and ventilated by a hot-air furnace or steam boiler. Therefore, a furnace room and a fuel room are 
necessary, also a small general storage room, janitor's room, etc. 

Electricity, water and sewerage facilities are supplied by the village. For this reason the school will not have the usual outside 
drinking pumps, toilets, etc., but will have modern city conveniences. 

The architectural style is optional. 
B, The design of a teachers' cottage — construction materials similar to those of school building. The requirements are as follows; 

Living room with fireplace, area 225 square feet. 

Dining room, area about 150 square feet. 

Kitchen and accessories, area about 130 square feet. 

'Three teachers' bedrooms with clothes closets, area about 125 square feet each, 

Bath room; closet for trunks: and a porch. 

The teachers' cottage may be one story or two stories in height, at the option of the designer. It should have a domestic character, 
but correspond in general architectural style to the school building. 

THE programme for the Sixth Annual countered in the average architectural practice, 

Architectural Competition, instituted by and that, therefore, the contestant would have to 

the Editor of The White Pine Series of exercise a greater degree of ingenuity than when 

Architectural Monographs, called for a school working out a problem for which there was 

building and teachers' cottage, to be erected in a ample precedent. The specific conditions of the 

progressive community, where the desire was for problem, therefore, necessarily were made fairly 

buildings which would be expressive of the pur- precise and definite. If it had been possible to 

pose for which they were to be used, and which make the programme a little "looser," and 

would set a high standard of good taste and thereby have allowed a greater latitude of 

architectural beauty. thought and a greater degree of imagination. 

The author of the programme realized that perhaps it might have made for an even more 

this type of building was one not often en- interesting problem. If the somewhat inelastic 



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terms of the programme intimidated a number 
of possible contestants, or if the majority of de- 
signers lack initiative to solve an unfamiliar 
problem, we would consider it a most unfortu- 
nate augury for the future of the architectural 
profession. 

Eighty-four sets of drawings were submitted in 
the competition, and, while none of the designs 
was highly imaginative in conception nor strik- 
ingly original in character, yet a fair average. in 
plan and elevation was maintained, making the 
task of differentiation a not altogether agreeable 
or satisfying one to the Jury of Award, but mak- 
ing it a pleasure for the Jury to comment favor- 
ably upon several designs, which, in the process 
of selection, did not fall into the "Premiated" 
nor "Mention" classes. 

FIRST PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by An- 
tonio DiNardo and W. Frank Hitchens, of Pitts- 
burgh, Pa. Architecture, being a three-dimen- 
sional subject, cannot be considered otherwise, 
and, therefore, it becomes not a question of plan 
or elevation, but a question of plan and eleva- 
tion. This design had a well articulated plan 
which functioned admirably, and an elevation 
possessing the charm of light and shade and 
shadow. The "porch," both as a practical and 
as an .-esthetic feature, is attractive. 

SECOND PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by 
William D. Foster, of New York, N. Y. As be- 
tween the design placed first and that placed 
second, there was no great difference in merit. 
The ample sunlit corridor presents an attractive 
feature excelled by no competitor. The plan 
turns the most attractive elevation of the build- 
ing away from the Village Green. The location 
of the play rooms and their correlation with the 
out-of-door play spaces and toilets, the location 
of the special rooms with respect to the class 
rooms, are admirable features of this fine open 
plan. 

The one-story teachers' cottage is attractive 
exteriorly, but not well studied as to plan, the 
living room being turned, necessarily, into a run- 
way, interfering with its use as a center of social 
life. The kitchen is not any too well equipped 
with pantries or storage closets. 

THIRD PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by 
Chauncey F. Hudson, of Buffalo, N. Y. This 
plan fell into the interior corridor type, and so 
loses somewhat of the attractiveness of the first 
and second prize designs. Nor do the toilet and 
play rooms, as to arrangement, quite reach the 
standard set by those designs. The location of 
the special rooms — industrial arts and domestic 



science — is not as good as in the two preceding 
plans. The character of the exterior is rich in 
quiet, rural charm, lacking in too many of the 
designs submitted. 

FOURTH PRIZE DESIGN. Submitted by 
Robbins L. Conn, of New York, N. Y. Like the 
design placed third, a long interior corridor was 
introduced into this design. The relation of the 
play rooms and toilets to the special rooms is 
good, as is also the correlation of the library and 
of the teachers' room with the class rooms. Also, 
like the third prize design, the elevations ade- 
quately express that which is most characteristic 
of rural surroundings, a leisurely charm. 

FIRST MENTION. Submitted by Alfred 
Cookman Cass, of New York, N. Y. 

SECOND MENTION. Submitted by David 
W. Carlson and Emil A. Lehti, of New York, 
N. Y. Of the designs to receive Mention, of 
which there were six, two seemed worthy of being 
given a definite place, and the Jury takes pleas- 
ure in according them this recognition. The 
First Mention is quite "academic" in design, that 
is, suggestive of the old "academies," yet rural 
in character; while the Second Mention has a 
decidedly free and picturesque quality. The in- 
terior .toilet in connection with the teachers' 
room in this design is a blemish in the plan 
which a bit of practical surgery might remove. 
The setting of the "academic" design is attrac- 
tive. 

MENTIONS. The four remaining designs to 
leceive mention were submitted by William J. 
Mooney and Harold A. Rich, of Boston, Mass.; 
Charles H. Dornbusch and Erick N. Kaeyer, 
New York, N. Y.; Leon H. Hoag, Bloomfield, 
N. J.; and Paul Hyde Harbach, Buffalo, N. Y. 

The design submitted by Messrs. Mooney and 
Rich was the simplest and most appropriate of 
the designs which featured a tower, of which 
there were six in the competition. The plan is 
compact and well arranged, its principal weak- 
ness, except for the cramped vestibule, lying in 
the dark corridor terminating in the toilet rooms 
rather than in points of light. An otherwise 
dark corridor may be saved and even made at- 
tractive by opening up the ends to the light. 

The design submitted by Messrs. Dornbusch 
and Kaeyer, while extremely attractive in its 
terraced approaches, suffers from a lack of rela- 
tionship between the wings, and a central feature 
which is attenuated and inadequate. The corri- 
dor is satisfying. Mr. Harbach's design is good 
of its type, with a well considered plan, and an 
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exterior well balanced, but not too replete with 
points of interest. Mr. Leon H. Hoag's design, 
concluding the list of those to receive mention, 
has many good points in plan, together with an 
exterior which would have been much more at- 
tractive and effective had its rather senemic 
porch been made to hold its own with the un- 
necessarily expansive grouped windows of the 
corridor. 

These ten designs noted above and recognized 
with prizes and mentions were not alone in 
merit among the eighty-four exhibits. It may 
not be invidious to mention certain others, 
which, while not reaching the standard set by the 
"Premiated" and "Mentioned" designs, in the 
matter of exterior treatment and in the character 
of the block plans present school-house and cot- 
tage plans almost, if not quite, on a par with 
those submitted by their more fortunate com- 
petitors. Thus, the design submitted by Ralph 
H. Hannaford, of Boston, Mass., presents a plan 
with a sunlit corridor and terraced forecourt 
which functioned most satisfactorily. Its exterior 
seemed to be too monumental in character to fit 
the material and the conditions. A plan in a 
manner similar, though not so attractively pre- 
sented nor conceived, was submitted by George 
Marshall Martin, of Louisville, Ky. Messrs. 
Wicks and Hopkins and Ernest Crimi, of Buf- 



falo, N. Y., submitted a compact plan, with an 
interior corridor, which develops into a too 
austered and shadeless exterior. The scheme 
presented by Messrs. Ralph T. Walter and Fred 
R. Lorenz, of New York, N. Y., has an interior, 
end lighted, spacious corridor, with well ar- 
ranged rooms. The open porches in connection 
with the play rooms might well have been 
adopted by others. The absence of a teachers' 
toilet, called for in the programme, is a fault. 

A review of the designs discloses the fact, or 
the seeming fact, that previous issues of the 
White Pine publications have been studied to 
some effect. What has been presented in pre- 
vious competitions, as well as what has been 
built of white pine from Colonial times down, 
has made its impress. The general uniformity 
in the designs betokens a subservience to tradi- 
tion which rather has hindered the flow of origi- 
nality which competitions of this character might 
well be counted upon to bring out. 



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Wm. B. Ittner 

Guy Lowell 

Arthur I. Meigs 

Irving K. Pond, Chairman 



Jury 
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List of Members of 

THE NORTHERN PINE MANUFACTURERS' ASSOCIATION OF 
MINNESOTA, WISCONSIN AND MICHIGAN 

W. T. Bailey Lumber Company Virginia, Minn. 

Cloquet Lumber Company Cloquet, Minn. 

Crookston Lumber Company 

Headquarters Minneapolis, Minn. 

Mills Bemidji, Minn. 

Johnson-Wentworth Company Cloquet, Minn. 

The J. Neils Lumber Company Cass Lake, Minn. 

The Northern Lumber Company Cloquet, Minn. 

Northern Pole & Lumber Company .... Duluth, Minn. 

RusT-OwEN Lumber Company Drummond, Wis. 

Shevlin-Clarke Company, Ltd. 

Headquarters Minneapolis, Minn. 

Mill Fort Frances, Ont. 

The Virginia & Rainy Lake Company .... Virginia, Minn. 



List of Members of 
THE ASSOCIATED WHITE PINE MANUFACTURERS OF IDAHO 

Blackwell Lumber Company Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 

Bonners Ferry Lumber Company Bonners Ferry, Idaho 

Dover Lumber Company Dover, Idaho 

HuMBiRD Lumber Company Sandpoint, Idaho 

McGoLDRicK Lumber Company Spokane, Wash. 

Milwaukee Land Company St. Joe, Idaho 

Panhandle Lumber Company Spirit Lake, Idaho 

Potlatch Lumber Company Potlatch, Idaho 

Roselake Lumber Company Roselake, Idaho 

Edward Rutledge Timber Company Coeur d'Alene, Idaho 

Winton Lumber Company Gibbs, Idaho 



Any information desired regarding White Pine will be furnished 
by any member of either Association or by the 

WHITE PINE BUREAU 

Merchants Bank Building, Saint Paul, Minnesota 

Representing 
The Northern Pine Manufacturers' Association of Minnesota, Wisconsin 
and Michigan and The Associated White Pine Manufacturers of Idaho 



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